An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson
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He was always learning. [Nora Bateson]
From everyone
and everything around him.
As a child I learned from him
that learning never stops.
Gregory Bateson challenged us to rethink [Jerry Brown]
or to stand back and try to perceive
in a different way. To see
how reality is actually operating.
He was interested in larger patterns. [Fritjof Capra]
He was interested in how things are connected and
especially how living things are connected.
Gregory said: "The major problems in the world
are the result of the difference
between how nature works and the way people think".
What does it even mean to change the way we think?
And he asked the question, what is there
about our way of perceiving
that makes us not see
the delicate interdependencies
in any ecological system
that give it its integrity? [Mary Catherine Bateson]
We don't see them and therefore
we break them.
You have a system and when you poke here [Stewart Brand]
instead of something happening there, it happens
that way. Or in some bearly
recognisable dimension. As because it's
a very complex system.
The nature of the world in which I live
and in which I wish you lived
- all of you! - and all the time
but even I don't live in it all the time.
There are times, when I catch my self
believing that there is such a thing as something,
which is separate from something else.
AN ECOLOGY OF MIND - a film by nora bateson
AnEcologyOfMind.com